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To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (25483)	7/5/1999 10:22:00 AM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Granted the internet and UNIX unification is keeping SUNW alive right now but how long will it last? We saw what happened in the EBAY model when you run one big piece of iron and it goes belly up. The solution is to run another big piece of iron as a backup ; $millions sitting their idle. More robust clustered configs such as those available from CPQ are perhaps the road that people need to explore. Also 8-way PIII configs are here now and that presents some new choices which could hurt Sun iron sales. People who want to run Solaris should think of choosing Solaris x86 on a 8-way PIII system since it gives me the flexibility of running NT or another OS at a later date. A SUNW buyout though would be interesting; as you suggest. Regarding Merced support for Solaris that won't give them much revenue; just look at Solaris x86. They're an iron vendor and when they can't push iron the bottom line starts looking weak. Cheers James